Post by NZBC on Apr 5, 2010 8:42:01 GMT 12
The poll tax of £100, which Is very paltry indeed to the man who really finds It is probably paid by some wealthy Mongolian mandarin who himself passed mid New Zealand a pauper 25 years ago. when the tax was but £10. Now the mandarin Is in a position to employ labor, but does he go to the sons of the men whose money made him? No, he sends put an S.O.S. for more slit-eyed sons of the Orient. From the moment of his arrival here the Chinese saves; he does not spend, a. sou. The very clothes he wears are often cadged From. the day of his arrival; the alien toils in garden or shop for a sweated wage. sleeps in his narrow sack bunk, lives in his stifling, sickly pigsty. Sundays he attends the gambling or opium den setting up the Orient in the heart of Maoriland NZ Truth , Issue 932, 6 October 1923, Page 4 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZTR19231006.2.15&srpos=30&e=-------100--1----0chinese+fruit+auckland-all